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Introducing Learner-Centered Collaborative
First of a 3-part series from Learner-Centered Collaborative’s leaders, Devin Vodicka and Katie Martin.
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When Learning Is Authentic
Authentic learning experiences can feel at odds with school systems and structures, but they don’t have to. Katie Martin shares how schools are pushing the boundaries to successfully orient toward relevant, meaningful, real-world learning experiences.
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Why Curiosity is Foundational to Learning
If we want our children to develop new skills, knowledge, and mindsets, it is foundational to spark curiosity. Otherwise, even through our best efforts to teach them, they may not actually learn.
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What Does Your Ideal Learning Environment Look Like?
Leaders commonly use strategic plans or vision statements that describe the desire to develop life-long learners, global citizens, critical thinkers, and the like, yet a misalignment often occurs between the vision, policies, and practices. The tension between what we say we want our students to know and be able to do and what we…
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There has never been a better time for OER
Shifting to learner-centered experiences for all students is going to require many shifts, including the ways in which we think about outcomes and assessments, and providing flexible and open learning resources will be an important part of the change journey.
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To Engage Students, Focus on Connection Over Content
It’s important to understand how student’s emotions impact their attention, engagement, and what they learn. Scheduling time with each student to connect, learn more about their circumstances, their goals, and ideas, created a different dynamic that built empathy and allowed for more personalization and meaningful connection. Students also recommend, reaching out via text, calling…
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The connection between anti-racism and learner-centered education
A learner-centered paradigm, which begins with a respect for the jagged intersectionality of our unique identities, is required if we are to achieve our aspirations of reducing systemic inequalities in education and beyond. Explore how learner-centered education empowers learners to develop their unique identity through exercising agency in pursuit of real-world problem-solving.
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Reaffirming Our Commitment to Racial Equity and Inclusion
Advancing equity, inclusion, and belonging for all people is foundational to learner-centered education and is critical to what we want to achieve as leaders and as an organization.
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Moving Forward Together: An Unprecedented Coalition for an Unprecedented Time
Moving Forward Together. Altitude Learning’s Devin Vodicka and Getting Smart’s Tom Vander Ark are leading a groundbreaking coalition to support support SEAs, districts, and schools paving a new path forward in service of all learners.
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How Learner Agency Impacts a Learning Ecosystem
School systems are interconnected communities of learners, and shifting to learner-centered models is a complex and humbling journey. In schools that are designed for standardization, tensions can arise very quickly when you begin to promote agency and innovation.
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Leading the Way to Authentic Learning
When students are engaged in solving real-world problems they are engaged in authentic learning. Gain strategies and examples for leading the way to authentic, learner-centered experiences.
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Do Your Assessments Improve Learning?
Grading and reporting of grades is one of the cornerstones of teaching but not always learning.
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Aligning Around a Common Vision for Learning
If we want to change how students learn, we must change how educators learn. A system that prioritizes learning and continuous growth through personalized, competency-based professional learning is needed for leadership teams and teachers just as it is needed for students.
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5 Reasons Every Learner Needs Project-Based Learning in Their Life
Real-world learning translates into real-world knowledge and skills. How can this type of contextual learning benefit your child?
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What Is Personalized Learning?
Learner-Centered Collaborative CEO Devin Vodicka explores the promise and challenges of personalized learning and reflects on what is needed in order to make dramatic improvements to the educational landscape.
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Learning Is a Process, Not an Event
If our vision for students is learner-centered, then our teacher development must be learner-centered, too. Katie Martin shares the key tenets of professional learning at Altitude Learning. See how our approach focuses on relevant and meaningful professional development that paves the way for a culture of learning that spans from adults to the youngest…
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Enabling Learner-Centered Education: Teachers, Technology, and the 4 Cs
In this tale of two classrooms, VP of Professional Learning Katie Martin shares examples that highlight the evolving role of the educator, how technology can support powerful learning, and why we must empower students to drive their own learning.
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3 Strategies to Transform Your School District Now
Transforming education to fit the needs of a new generation of learners is a daunting task. Former “California Superintendent of the Year” and current Altitude Learning’s Chief Impact Officer and Chief Academic Officer Devin Vodicka shares three strategies for tackling this monumental transition.